I'm on the fence. I love PBK's stockings this year but I don't know if I want to get them or not b/c I don't know if they'll have ones that will match when the next LO is born.
Are you buying matching stockings for everyone this year or will you/did you wait until all LO's are/were born before getting ones that match?
Re: Are you waiting to get matchy-matchy stockings until all LO's are born?
My stocking is burgundy velvet and DH's is green velvet; both have our first initials in silver sparkles. Wanted one for DS that kind of went with ours, so I ordered from here and got a blue velvet one with sparkles personalized in silver thread.
I really, really loved the jester stockings here, but DH wasn't a fan. Maybe someday down the road (after #2) I can convince him, and then both kiddos would have these funky-yet-classic stockings.
I would be matchy matchy only with twins. DH and I have similar stockings we bought a few years ago. Kiddo is getting a stocking this year that my mom is going to "decorate" further. It will be her stocking until it wears out. Future kids will get their own stocking that will also be decorated. But matching/similar only if twins/triplets, etc.
My grandmother made my sister and I matching stockings (handmade from a kit - made of felt, rickrack, etc). We used them for DECADES and now they are too delicate for things to be put into them. So she and her DH and my DH and I bought our own stockings. I made stockings for my sister's twins for their first xmas (matching, but not identical) and would have made more, but she's done with kids. The boys' stockings don't match their parents. And I don't think sis's and BIL's stockings match each other's either.
DH and I have the same style, but his is green and mine is red and they are further decorated and personalized with names, etc. Kiddo's doesn't match ours. And since we don't know how many kids we'll end up with, it didn't make sense to buy more.
I doubt we'll ever have matchy-matchy stockings. I like them to be unique and reflect our personalities. Last year DH and I both bought each other new stockings (both surprised each other) - which was pretty cool. His is camo with a small deer near the top (he's a hunter, obviously). Mine is a winter white color with fancy gold/silver embroidery on it (which I LOVE). I just bought a $1 "Baby's First Christmas" stocking for DS. And, of course, the doggies have their own stockings too.
But as DS gets older, I'll either let him pick out his own stocking or let him make one every year. It'll be a fun arts/crafts project for him!
Nope. I have mine from when I was a kid, and we got one for our cats (laugh if you must) and DH doesn't have one yet. The one I got for DS is all red and embroidered on the front in white it says, "Santa, I've been a good boy!" I just thought it was so cute, I couldn't pass it up but it may not be his forever stocking. We'll see down the road.
Although I am going to get an extra stocking holder and put it away so those will all match once we have another stocking to hang!